Population, propriété financière, colonisation Les contradictions des malthusiens français (1840-1870)

The economists who diffused Malthus’s thought in France in the mid-nineteenth century were men of letters, lawyers, doctors, businessmen, and bankers. Far from being uniquely demographic, social, or economic, their analyses of the stakes linked to territory had a strong political and ideological dimension, and dominated the intellectual field under the Second Empire.